On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 09:09:40PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Brandon Casey <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > >> Well, this may just prove I'm an idiot, but one of the reasons I rarely > >> run it is that I have trouble remembering exactly what it does; in > >> particular, > >> > >> - does it prune anything that might be needed by a repo I > >> cloned with -s? > > > > YES! yikes. > > > > This is about the best argument put forth so far for not > > automatically running git-gc. > > Well, it could also mean that if git finds a dead symbolic link when > looking up an object, it should check the corresponding link target > directory for a pack file with the respective object... and if it > finds such a pack file, create a link to it and use it. One of the two of us is very confused about what "git-clone -s" does. See the git-clone man page. I don't think symlinks are involved. --b. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
